Miguel Frasconi: The RIOT of SPRING by 16 Stravinskys - "Sixteen different recordings of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, played simultaneously. Conceived and realized by Miguel Frasconi.
This version created in honor of the 100th anniversary of the premiere performance of Le Sacre du printemps, which took place May 29, 1913.
The Riot of Spring (An Orchestra of Orchestras) was first performed in 2006 on Stephan Moore's 16 speaker array, with a different orchestra in each speaker. It was commissioned by Suzanne Fiol and ISSUE Project Room for the first annual Floating Points festival."
released 29 May 2013
Please do not pay for these audio files.
Back home, just in time for the World Cup! Had a great holiday, saw (and heard) many things. Quite happy, though, not to hear a Peruvian pan-pipe band playing the same repertoire for a while - Guatanemara, El Condor Pasa and La Bamba seemed ubiquitous. Planning now starting for next big trip in September 2015 - West Coast USA. I'll need a few days to catch up all I've missed here, along with the washing, gardening etc. I've just been through Jonah's Jazz Picks for recent weeks, downloaded a few things including Ambient Jazz Ensemble above. First to play however is
Thought to myself: wonder what Kelly Joe Phelps has been up to. Did some searching and found that this album had slipped past me. If like me you think that his first couple of albums (Lead Me On and Roll Away the Stone) were special for their combination of gospel blues lyrics and remarkable solo acoustic blues (lapsteel) guitar, this is a return to that subject matter and style. Recommended.
Went to Corner Records this afternoon with a $50 gift certificate that I was given recently. Also took along a bunch of castoff CDs that I suspected they would not want, but they did and that extended my credit further. So for a total cash outlay of $8 I walked off with these:
Since I was playing with house money, I decided to just go for a bunch of things that were new to me, take some chances on things I did not know a lot about. Have not listened to Bud Powell - this should amend that. Saw the Jack DeJohnette album and recalled Doofy saying on another thread here that he was "the most musical of drummers" - the phrase stuck with me somehow and was why I took a chance on his album. The Paul Motian Trio recording is in cool artsy packaging that sealed that deal. Know nothing about Horace Silver - but hey, I like pianists. I have had nothing by Charlie Parker in my collection and this was the least cheesy looking selection. And so on.
Have just been listening to the Peterson Trio (amazing) and the Django Reinhardt (very nice too).
What a fun afternoon.
(ETA based on Amazon reviews it looks as if I made a pretty good selection overall, despite working from some measure of ignorance)
Enjoying this one too.
("popular tags" on Last.fm include "lesser known but streamable artists". Nice to know not being a household name does not make an artist unstreamable!)
Planet Mu label boss Mike Paradinas programmes a nostalgic mix of '70s and '80s TVTHEMES with over 100 tracks and audio snippets that shaped his approach to sound.
@jonahpwll, thanks for that Spacelab rec - catching up with it now, and it does indeed sound good to this fan of the Marcin Wasilewski Trio. Too bad it's not on emusic...will put it in the wishlist to buy elsewhere soon (unfortunately I have bought way too many albums in the past week).
Listening to the new Death Grips thing. I like Death Grips but from a band that's 2/3 white I think they should have come up with a different album title.
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The RIOT of SPRING by 16 Stravinskys
- "Sixteen different recordings of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, played simultaneously. Conceived and realized by Miguel Frasconi.
This version created in honor of the 100th anniversary of the premiere performance of Le Sacre du printemps, which took place May 29, 1913.
The Riot of Spring (An Orchestra of Orchestras) was first performed in 2006 on Stephan Moore's 16 speaker array, with a different orchestra in each speaker. It was commissioned by Suzanne Fiol and ISSUE Project Room for the first annual Floating Points festival."
released 29 May 2013
Please do not pay for these audio files.
Haven't been posting as much lately, as I have just been listening to this Shostakovich set most mornings.
Kelly Joe Phelps - Borther SInner & The Whale
Thought to myself: wonder what Kelly Joe Phelps has been up to. Did some searching and found that this album had slipped past me. If like me you think that his first couple of albums (Lead Me On and Roll Away the Stone) were special for their combination of gospel blues lyrics and remarkable solo acoustic blues (lapsteel) guitar, this is a return to that subject matter and style. Recommended.
- Groundbreaking, breathtaking, unique . . . etc.
Now starting:
Three months from today.
Craig
You may be cool, but not as cool as Horace Silver with a couple of models back in 1966.
I must have posted this previously, because I now remember mentioning that Woody Shaw was only 21 or 22 when he played on this album
Something I got from the SEM label closing; very nice.
Since I was playing with house money, I decided to just go for a bunch of things that were new to me, take some chances on things I did not know a lot about. Have not listened to Bud Powell - this should amend that. Saw the Jack DeJohnette album and recalled Doofy saying on another thread here that he was "the most musical of drummers" - the phrase stuck with me somehow and was why I took a chance on his album. The Paul Motian Trio recording is in cool artsy packaging that sealed that deal. Know nothing about Horace Silver - but hey, I like pianists. I have had nothing by Charlie Parker in my collection and this was the least cheesy looking selection. And so on.
Have just been listening to the Peterson Trio (amazing) and the Django Reinhardt (very nice too).
What a fun afternoon.
(ETA based on Amazon reviews it looks as if I made a pretty good selection overall, despite working from some measure of ignorance)
Enjoying this one too.
("popular tags" on Last.fm include "lesser known but streamable artists". Nice to know not being a household name does not make an artist unstreamable!)
Ola Kvernberg Trio - "Northern Tapes"
-Nordic folk... or something like that. Simply beautiful. It's a cross between Oskar Schonning's "The Violin" and the theme from Deadwood.
Ola Kvernberg - "Liarbird"
-Featuring Mathias Eick and Hakon Kornstad. Can't remember which of those two led me to Kvernberg's music, but I'm grateful.
Finally!
followed by
The latest surprise release from Death Grips. Crazily, this one features vocals from Bjork on each of the 8 tracks.
Craig
Paul Motian Trio - Sound of Love
Brian Eno - "Ambient 1: Music For Airports"
Wayne Escoffery Quintet - "Live at Firehouse 12"
Craig